Cisco packet tracer configuration of University

[NTOMBENHLE]

Hello expert

I was given a project to design and configure the topology.

A small business with 50 employees and 5 departments need a network to support it's day to day Operations. The network should be designed to allow employees to access the internet, share, files and printers and connect to remote VPN. The network infrastructure should be secure and efficient for the small enterprise and support the needs of the organization now and in the future. The network should also be secure to prevent unauthorized access .

I tried to build the topology and configure but I think I'm lacking basic understand of what my network is gonna have and what it's gonna do.

If anyone can help please assist me where you can.

Thank you 

[Flavio Miranda · Accepted solution]

Hi

  Use the methodology of First things first. Start by adding the basic: Switches, PC and Routers. Make them work together, assign IP address to devices either static or DHCP and them share the basic here and ask for more help.

 The internet can be represented on the PT for a cloud device.

The important thing here is build something even simple and them make progress.  Just dont expect nor allow people do the exercise for you.

[Martin L]

Small business with only 50 employees could have just 1 vlan but 5 departments would probably mean 5 vlans; aka 1 department per vlan; based on my college homework experience tells me. Vlan separates B-cast domain which means a routing is needed for vlan to vlan talk.

So, 5 vlans for working people; plus 1 vlan for servers, one for printers if u do not have a printer per department. otherwise, no seperate vlan for printers.  Anything you think that needs extra security would mean a need for vlan.

If you studied subnetting, or have to use it, you would have to implement subnetting as each vlan is in or on (or has) its own subnet. Worst case, u would have to use /28 per vlan but since you mention company growth,  You could assign the whole Class C subnet per vlan and use one dedicated /30 for any point to point connections.  Easiest would be something like 192.168.0.x/24 for any routing needs; then vlan 2 has 192.168.2.x/24, vlan 3 is in 192.168.3.x/24, 192.168.4.x/24, etc.  Notice no vlan 1 which is factory default vlan and is not recommended to be used by default. You could skip or use 192.168.1.x/24 for printers.

Regards, ML
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[TotallyTodd]

Totally share the file of your progress so far! 

[Georg Pauwen]

Hello,

attached is a basic network with 5 Vlans (one for each department), a server Vlan, a multilayer switch, a DHCP server, and a router for Internet access. This should at the very least get you started. Make sure you are running the latest version (8.2.1) of Packet Tracer in order to be able to open the file.